{ "url": "https://www.repubblica.it", "auditedAt": "2026-07-21T05:54:54.504Z", "mode": "report", "status": "completed", "statusDetail": "Atomic coverage complete across 58 checks and five representative public templates/flows.", "page": { "appType": "mpa", "framework": "server-rendered multi-page publisher", "notes": "Large Italian news publisher with homepage, section, article/paywall, search, and recovery templates." }, "evidenceUsed": [ "screenshot", "dom", "evaluate-probe", "layout-metrics", "trace", "har", "discoverability", "headers", "cookies", "trackers", "secrets", "images", "heap-summary", "lighthouse", "Modern Web Guidance" ], "guidanceConsulted": [ "adapt-scrollbar-to-contrast-preferences", "dark-mode", "scroll-entry-exit-effects", "stack-drill-down", "navigation-drawer", "position-aware-tooltips", "html", "declarative-dialog-popover-control", "fluid-scaling", "css", "stabilize-reactive-state", "capture-location-agnostic-data", "performance", "optimize-preload-priority", "accessibility", "search-hidden-content", "interactive-content-reveal", "security", "privacy", "defer-rendering-heavy-content", "calculate-event-differentials", "support-global-calendar-systems", "autofill-sign-in-form", "validate-input-after-interaction", "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "agentic-javascript-tools", "agentic-forms", "persistent-top-layer-ui", "defer-work-until-scroll-ends" ], "artifacts": [ { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-desktop.png", "caption": "home desktop", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F05", "F06", "F07", "F11", "F12", "F25", "F27", "F29", "F30" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-mobile.png", "caption": "home mobile", "condition": "viewport: 390x844", "findingIds": [ "F05", "F08", "F20", "F27", "F29" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-dark.png", "caption": "home dark", "condition": "prefers-color-scheme: dark", "findingIds": [ "F01" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-clean.png", "caption": "home clean", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/section-politica.png", "caption": "section politica", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F05" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/article.png", "caption": "article", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F07", "F11", "F12", "F27" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/article-mobile.png", "caption": "article mobile", "condition": "viewport: 390x844", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/search-results.png", "caption": "search results", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/404.png", "caption": "404", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F30" ] }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "caption": "home mobile layout", "condition": "viewport: 390x844", "findingIds": [ "F04", "F08", "F09", "F20" ] }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/article-mobile-layout.json", "caption": "article mobile layout", "condition": "viewport: 390x844", "findingIds": [ "F09" ] }, { "type": "trace", "path": "evidence/home-trace.json", "caption": "home trace", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "trace-summary", "path": "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "caption": "home trace summary", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F13", "F14" ] }, { "type": "har", "path": "evidence/home.har", "caption": "home", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-summary.json", "caption": "home summary", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F15", "F16", "F25", "F32", "F33", "F35" ] }, { "type": "lighthouse", "path": "evidence/home-lighthouse.json", 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"default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F12", "F29" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "caption": "home platform probe", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F02", "F03", "F04", "F06", "F09", "F10", "F15", "F17", "F19", "F21", "F23", "F28" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/preferences-probe.json", "caption": "preferences probe", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F01" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/article-probe.json", "caption": "article probe", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/section-probe.json", "caption": "section probe", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F19" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/search-probe.json", "caption": "search probe", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/404-probe.json", "caption": "404 probe", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/robots-sitemap.json", "caption": "robots sitemap", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F23" ] }, { "type": "discoverability", "path": "evidence/home-discoverability.json", "caption": "home discoverability", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-discoverability-rendered.png", "caption": "home discoverability rendered", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-discoverability-crawler.png", "caption": "home discoverability crawler", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "discoverability", "path": "evidence/article-discoverability.json", "caption": "article discoverability", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/article-discoverability-rendered.png", "caption": "article discoverability rendered", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/article-discoverability-crawler.png", "caption": "article discoverability crawler", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/headers.json", "caption": "headers", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F24", "F26" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/cookies.json", "caption": "cookies", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F24" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/trackers.json", "caption": "trackers", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F25", "F33" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/secrets.json", "caption": "secrets", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-images.json", "caption": "home images", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F17", "F21", "F31" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/article-images.json", "caption": "article images", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F21" ] }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/heap-settled-baseline.json", "caption": "heap settled baseline", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F34", "F35", "F36" ] }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/heap-settled-post.json", "caption": "heap settled post", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F34", "F36" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/menu-repeat-metrics.json", "caption": "menu repeat metrics", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [ "F34", "F36" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/coverage-manifest.json", "caption": "coverage manifest", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/guidance-searches.json", "caption": "guidance searches", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/guidance-retrieved.md", "caption": "guidance retrieved", "condition": "default/route-specific condition", "findingIds": [] } ], "config": { "loaded": false }, "coverage": { "catalogVersion": "modern-web-guidance@0.0.172", "catalogChecksum": "sha256:78ccfdb2d483f4c57d9dafed80fd86c6265585a56457c8dcfddc254b80fb44d7", "expected": 58, "recorded": 58, "judged": 58, "blocked": 0, "notRun": 0, "missing": 0, "unknown": 0, "duplicates": 0, "complete": true }, "checkOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-color-scheme", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "With prefers-color-scheme: dark active, the body remains rgb(252,253,253) with black text and color-scheme remains normal; the dark screenshot is visually unchanged.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png", "evidence/preferences-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F01" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-reduced-motion", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Compared getAnimations() under default and reduced-motion emulation.", "evidence": "No active animations were returned under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce, while the default probe observed three running 200 ms animations.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/preferences-probe.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "CSS inspection 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representative news routes, so there is no scroll-linked implementation to judge.", "reason": "No parallax, scrollytelling, or scroll-linked reveal surface was observed on the representative news routes, so there is no scroll-linked implementation to judge." }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "physical-gestures", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "The audited news, search, and article templates expose no gesture-driven carousel, swipe, pull-to-refresh, or reorder interaction.", "reason": "The audited news, search, and article templates expose no gesture-driven carousel, swipe, pull-to-refresh, or reorder interaction." }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "The homepage is about 53,519 CSS px tall, but CSS inspection found no scroll-state query, scroll timeline, or progress treatment.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F04" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "anchored-positioning", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No tooltip or viewport-edge popover requiring anchored positioning appeared in the representative public routes.", "reason": "No tooltip or viewport-edge popover requiring anchored positioning appeared in the representative public routes." }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "directs-attention", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "DOM/focus probe plus 404 walkthrough.", "evidence": "A skip link targets #main-content, labeled menu/search controls expose the navigation path, and the 404 offers a clear homepage recovery link.", "pathIds": [ "home", "404" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/404-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "Desktop and mobile screenshots show a large modal/overlay covering the news page before interaction; on mobile its controls extend below the first viewport.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/section-politica.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F05" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "The DOM reports zero dialog and zero popover elements while the screenshots show a modal consent experience.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "reduced-chrome", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "The article screenshot gives a large bordered ad slot most of the pre-headline viewport, and the consent layer occupies the lower portion.", "pathIds": [ "article", "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article.png", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F07" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "The mobile layout primitive measured scrollWidth 986 versus visual viewport 390, with 596 px horizontal overflow; the article template had no overflow.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F08" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "component-level-responsiveness", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "CSS inspection found no @container rules, while the homepage fails at 390 px and the article template adapts correctly.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/article-mobile-layout.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F09" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "input-modality-aware", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "The focus probe found many visible links/inputs with outline:none, and Lighthouse reported 10 target-size failures.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse-details.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F10" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-purpose-and-primary-action", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "The homepage and section are identifiable, but the load screenshots cover the story grid with consent; the article places a large ad before the headline.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/article.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F11" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "primary-flow-completion", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "On the homepage the CSS makes .iubenda-cs-close-btn visibility:hidden, leaving Accept or “Reject and subscribe”; the article uses another full-width cookie notice before reading.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/article.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F12" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-system-state-and-recovery", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Exercised a representative 404 recovery state.", "evidence": "The deliberate missing URL returns a bilingual “Pagina non trovata / Page not found” state explaining the problem and linking back to the homepage.", "pathIds": [ "404" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/404.png", "evidence/404-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "good-core-web-vitals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured homepage LCP 11.8 s and article LCP 15.5 s; the trace independently measured homepage LCP 5.4 s. CLS remained low.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/article-lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F13" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "visual-stability", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Layout-shift observer and Lighthouse comparison.", "evidence": "Homepage observed CLS was 0 in the layout run and 0.003 in Lighthouse; article CLS was 0.0069, all within the good range.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/article-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse-summary.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-main-thread", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "Lighthouse reported 3.0 s of main-thread work and 280 ms TBT; the trace found one 65 ms long task.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F14" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "Lighthouse found 890 ms root-document latency, an estimated 1,340 ms render-blocking saving, and 710 KiB cache-lifetime saving; HAR confirmed two very-high-priority parser stylesheets.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F15" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "Lighthouse estimated 729 KiB unused JavaScript and 13 KiB unused CSS; HAR transferred 1.51 MB across 30 scripts.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F16" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "names-roles-labels", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed link-name and image-alt; the DOM probe counted 57 anchors with no text, aria-label, or image alt, and the image primitive found two missing alts.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-details.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/home-images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F17" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "sufficient-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "Lighthouse identified 121 homepage contrast failures and 3 article failures.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-details.json", "evidence/article-lighthouse-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F18" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "structure-and-focus", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "The Politica section has no h1 and begins with repeated h2 headings; many focused visible links show outline:none in the probe.", "pathIds": [ "politica-section", "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/section-probe.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F19" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "legible-text", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Visual review plus article mobile layout.", "evidence": "Article headline/body typography is large and readable in desktop/mobile captures, with no article horizontal overflow or clipping.", "pathIds": [ "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article.png", "evidence/article-mobile.png", "evidence/article-mobile-layout.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "At 390 px the homepage overflows by 596 px and Lighthouse reports 10 undersized/closely spaced targets; viewport scaling itself is allowed.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/lighthouse-details.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F20" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "no-console-errors", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse console audit plus successful route loads.", "evidence": "Lighthouse errors-in-console reported zero items and no uncaught exception prevented the audited templates from loading.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-details.json" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "sound-document-and-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "Doctype, UTF-8 and viewport are valid, but the image primitive found two missing dimensions on both homepage and article, 79/100 homepage images without srcset, and 94 legacy-format images.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/article-images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F21" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "Lighthouse found one Inspector Issues entry, although it found no deprecated APIs or console errors.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-details.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F22" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "title-and-description", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM probes across representative templates.", "evidence": "Homepage, section, article, search, and 404 paths have descriptive titles; public content templates expose meta descriptions.", "pathIds": [ "home", "politica-section", "article", "search" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/article-probe.json", "evidence/section-probe.json", "evidence/search-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "The homepage has 581 real href anchors but 57 have no discernible text; Lighthouse fails link-name. Viewport and robots allow normal search crawling.", "pathIds": [ "home", "politica-section" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse-details.json", "evidence/robots-sitemap.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F23" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM metadata plus robots/sitemap fetch.", "evidence": "Public routes return 200, expose canonical URLs, are not noindex, and robots.txt points to a working sitemap index.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/article-probe.json", "evidence/robots-sitemap.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Parsed rendered metadata against visible article content.", "evidence": "The article exposes NewsArticle, AudioObject and BreadcrumbList JSON-LD plus matching Open Graph title, description, image and URL; homepage has JSON-LD and OG metadata.", "pathIds": [ "article", "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-probe.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "CSP allows unsafe-inline and unsafe-eval; HSTS and nosniff are missing. Six of seven observed cookies lack Secure and all use SameSite=None.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F24" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "Tracker capture found 22 third-party origins and four known tracker domains; HAR transferred 2.16 MB, including 1.51 MB of scripts.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F25" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Observed page load and task walkthroughs.", "evidence": "No browser permission prompt appeared on any audited public route. Authentication was not required for the representative public-news/search tasks, so its credential method did not apply to these paths.", "pathIds": [ "home", "search" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/search-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "defensive-browser-policies", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "Headers show no HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, clickjacking policy, or Permissions-Policy; Referrer-Policy is unsafe-url and CSP has no frame-ancestors while allowing unsafe code.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F26" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "progressive-enhancement", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Discoverability no-JS comparison and crawler screenshots.", "evidence": "Raw HTML retains 94% of homepage and 76% of article content words, with title, h1, and description present without JavaScript.", "pathIds": [ "home", "article" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-discoverability.json", "evidence/home-discoverability-rendered.png", "evidence/home-discoverability-crawler.png", "evidence/article-discoverability.json", "evidence/article-discoverability-rendered.png", "evidence/article-discoverability-crawler.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "Homepage/section show a centered blocking wall, mobile places actions below the first viewport, and the article uses a different bottom notice; no semantic dialog is present.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/article.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F27" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "offline-and-installable", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "This is a server-rendered, frequently changing news service rather than an installable app in the audited scope; no offline reading/installability intent was declared.", "reason": "This is a server-rendered, frequently changing news service rather than an installable app in the audited scope; no offline reading/installability intent was declared." }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct 404 route exercise.", "evidence": "A missing route produces a useful bilingual 404 with explanation and homepage recovery instead of a blank shell.", "pathIds": [ "404" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/404.png", "evidence/404-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "html lang is it, but CSS inspection found no logical properties and did find physical left/padding-left rules.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F28" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "locale-aware-data", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Visual/DOM review of localized data.", "evidence": "Rendered dates and subscription prices use Italian language and formatting consistently on article, search, and 404 paths.", "pathIds": [ "article", "search", "404" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-probe.json", "evidence/search-probe.json", "evidence/404-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "time-zone-correctness", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "The representative news, section, search, and article templates show publication dates but no event scheduling, recurring intervals, or user-entered time-zone-sensitive data.", "reason": "The representative news, section, search, and article templates show publication dates but no event scheduling, recurring intervals, or user-entered time-zone-sensitive data." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "no-dark-patterns", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "The primary choices are “ACCETTA” and “RIFIUTA E ABBONATI”; the homepage CSS hides the continue-without-accepting control, making the privacy-preserving path materially less available.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F29" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "humane-error-handling", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "The audited search uses an optional GET query and exposes no required or destructive form submission for which validation/error timing applies.", "reason": "The audited search uses an optional GET query and exposes no required or destructive form submission for which validation/error timing applies." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "The representative public routes only expose search/filter inputs; address, payment, sign-in, and sign-up fields were outside the audited public-news scope.", "reason": "The representative public routes only expose search/filter inputs; address, payment, sign-in, and sign-up fields were outside the audited public-news scope." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "The consent wall presents subscription as the rejection action, while pricing appears elsewhere; this makes a privacy choice look like a purchase commitment.", "pathIds": [ "home", "404" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/404.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F30" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "optimised-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "The homepage image audit found 94 legacy-format images, 79 without srcset, and eight oversized images; Lighthouse estimated 76 KiB immediate image savings.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F31" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "no-wasteful-work", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "HAR recorded 83 requests and 2.16 MB transferred; 30 scripts account for 1.51 MB, while Lighthouse estimates 729 KiB unused JavaScript.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F32" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "Twenty-two third-party origins load on the homepage, including four known trackers, before the user can access content.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F33" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "structured-agent-capabilities", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No agent-facing transaction or tool surface is declared, and robots.txt explicitly opts major AI crawlers out; absence of WebMCP capabilities is therefore treated as an intentional contextual choice, not a defect.", "reason": "No agent-facing transaction or tool surface is declared, and robots.txt explicitly opts major AI crawlers out; absence of WebMCP capabilities is therefore treated as an intentional contextual choice, not a defect." }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "on-device-inference", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement", "evidence": "The audited publisher experience exposes no summarization/composition feature requiring inference; adding built-in AI is an optional product decision rather than a quality requirement.", "reason": "The audited publisher experience exposes no summarization/composition feature requiring inference; adding built-in AI is an optional product decision rather than a quality requirement." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "After equivalent consent dismissal and settling, 10 menu open/close cycles increased snapshot self size from 75.1 MB to 81.9 MB (+9%) and snapshot nodes from 1.35M to 1.52M (+13%).", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-settled-baseline.json", "evidence/heap-settled-post.json", "evidence/menu-repeat-metrics.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F34" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "bounded-footprint", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "The settled baseline heap summary contains 1,348,055 snapshot nodes and 75.1 MB self size before repeated interaction.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-settled-baseline.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F35" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Direct visual, DOM, performance, network, or interaction evidence as cited", "evidence": "The settled repeated-interaction snapshot retained 176,820 more snapshot nodes and 6.8 MB more self size; the in-page sample also grew from 3,441 to 3,478 DOM elements. Constructor-level detached-node attribution was unavailable, so confidence is medium.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-settled-baseline.json", "evidence/heap-settled-post.json", "evidence/menu-repeat-metrics.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F36" ] } ], "principleOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F04" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F05", "F06", "F07" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F08", "F09", "F10" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F11", "F12" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F13", "F14", "F15", "F16" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F17", "F18", "F19", "F20" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F21", "F22" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F23" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F24", "F25", "F26" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F27" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F28" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F29", "F30" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F31", "F32", "F33" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "not-applicable", "reason": "No agent-facing transaction or tool surface is declared, and robots.txt explicitly opts major AI crawlers out; absence of WebMCP capabilities is therefore treated as an intentional contextual choice, not a defect. The audited publisher experience exposes no summarization/composition feature requiring inference; adding built-in AI is an optional product decision rather than a quality requirement.", "findingIds": [] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F34", "F35", "F36" ] } ], "paths": [ { "id": "home", "description": "Homepage: primary news discovery, consent, responsive and performance template.", "url": "https://www.repubblica.it/", "conditions": [ "desktop", "viewport: 390x844", "prefers-color-scheme: dark", "prefers-reduced-motion: reduce", "keyboard focus", "no JavaScript crawler comparison" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "politica-section", "description": "Politica section: representative listing/index template.", "url": "https://www.repubblica.it/politica/", "conditions": [ "desktop", "metadata and heading structure" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "article", "description": "Cronaca premium article: representative detail/paywall template.", "url": "https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2026/07/21/news/fakir_viminale_strategia_piantedosi_cucchi-425483146/", "conditions": [ "desktop", "viewport: 390x844", "no JavaScript crawler comparison", "Lighthouse" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "search", "description": "Search results for “roma”: primary content-finding flow.", "url": "https://www.repubblica.it/ricerca/?query=roma", "conditions": [ "desktop", "GET form/results" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "404", "description": "Deliberate missing route: recovery/error-state template.", "url": "https://www.repubblica.it/questa-pagina-non-esiste-web-uplift", "conditions": [ "desktop", "404 recovery" ], "result": "pass" } ], "findings": [ { "id": "F01", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-color-scheme", "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The site does not adapt to dark color preference.", "evidence": "With prefers-color-scheme: dark active, the body remains rgb(252,253,253) with black text and color-scheme remains normal; the dark screenshot is visually unchanged.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png", "evidence/preferences-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Declare color-scheme and map surfaces/text to light-dark() or a prefers-color-scheme theme.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F02", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-contrast", "guidanceId": "adapt-scrollbar-to-contrast-preferences", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "High-contrast support and baseline contrast are insufficient.", "evidence": "CSS inspection found no prefers-contrast or forced-colors handling, and Lighthouse found 121 contrast failures on the homepage.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse-details.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add forced-colors/prefers-contrast styles, preserve native control colors, and remediate all WCAG contrast failures.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F03", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "principleCheckId": "view-transitions", "guidanceId": "stack-drill-down", "severity": "low", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "Page and state changes use abrupt legacy swaps.", "evidence": "CSS inspection found no view-transition usage across the representative news templates.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Progressively enhance section/article navigation and major state swaps with same- or cross-document View Transitions, honoring reduced motion.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F04", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "guidanceId": "defer-work-until-scroll-ends", "severity": "low", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "Long news pages lack scroll-state guidance.", "evidence": "The homepage is about 53,519 CSS px tall, but CSS inspection found no scroll-state query, scroll timeline, or progress treatment.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add a lightweight reading/scroll progress affordance and progressively enhance sticky chrome with scroll-state-aware CSS.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F05", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "guidanceId": "persistent-top-layer-ui", "severity": "critical", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The consent wall obscures the primary content on load.", "evidence": "Desktop and mobile screenshots show a large modal/overlay covering the news page before interaction; on mobile its controls extend below the first viewport.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/section-politica.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Replace the blocking wall with a compact, content-preserving consent surface, expose an equally prominent continue-without-accepting action, and defer nonessential tracking.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F06", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "guidanceId": "declarative-dialog-popover-control", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The blocking overlay is not built with a semantic dialog primitive.", "evidence": "The DOM reports zero dialog and zero popover elements while the screenshots show a modal consent experience.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Use for the modal flow with native focus containment/close semantics, or a nonmodal disclosure if blocking is unnecessary.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F07", "pathId": "article", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "reduced-chrome", "guidanceId": "defer-rendering-heavy-content", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Advertising, subscription chrome, and consent UI dominate the first viewport.", "evidence": "The article screenshot gives a large bordered ad slot most of the pre-headline viewport, and the consent layer occupies the lower portion.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/article.png", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Reduce and defer ad chrome, reserve smaller stable slots, and prioritize headline/article content in the initial viewport.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F08", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "severity": "critical", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The homepage forces a 986 px layout into a 390 px viewport.", "evidence": "The mobile layout primitive measured scrollWidth 986 versus visual viewport 390, with 596 px horizontal overflow; the article template had no overflow.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Remove fixed desktop minimum widths and use intrinsic/fluid sizing so the homepage fits the visual viewport.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F09", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "component-level-responsiveness", "guidanceId": "css", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Reused news components do not use container-aware adaptation.", "evidence": "CSS inspection found no @container rules, while the homepage fails at 390 px and the article template adapts correctly.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/article-mobile-layout.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Make shared cards/header/ad modules size-contained and adapt them with container queries plus intrinsic fallbacks.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F10", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "input-modality-aware", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Keyboard focus and touch-target support are inconsistent.", "evidence": "The focus probe found many visible links/inputs with outline:none, and Lighthouse reported 10 target-size failures.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse-details.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use :focus-visible with a high-contrast ring and ensure interactive targets meet minimum size/spacing without hover-only disclosure.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F11", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "principleCheckId": "clear-purpose-and-primary-action", "guidanceId": "defer-rendering-heavy-content", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The primary news task is hidden behind consent and ad chrome.", "evidence": "The homepage and section are identifiable, but the load screenshots cover the story grid with consent; the article places a large ad before the headline.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/article.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Expose the lead stories/headline immediately and move consent/ad choices out of the core content path.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F12", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "principleCheckId": "primary-flow-completion", "guidanceId": "persistent-top-layer-ui", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Reading a public route is needlessly detoured through a coercive consent/subscription choice.", "evidence": "On the homepage the CSS makes .iubenda-cs-close-btn visibility:hidden, leaving Accept or “Reject and subscribe”; the article uses another full-width cookie notice before reading.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/article.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Offer a visible continue-with-essential-cookies path on every template and keep subscription decisions separate from privacy consent.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F13", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "good-core-web-vitals", "guidanceId": "performance", "severity": "critical", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Loading is far outside the good LCP range.", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured homepage LCP 11.8 s and article LCP 15.5 s; the trace independently measured homepage LCP 5.4 s. CLS remained low.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/article-lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Prioritize the LCP resource, reduce document latency and blocking work, and defer noncritical ads/third parties.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F14", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-main-thread", "guidanceId": "performance", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Main-thread work remains heavy during load.", "evidence": "Lighthouse reported 3.0 s of main-thread work and 280 ms TBT; the trace found one 65 ms long task.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Break up initialization, remove unused code, and defer analytics/ad work until needed.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F15", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "guidanceId": "optimize-preload-priority", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Critical delivery has slow document and render-blocking paths.", "evidence": "Lighthouse found 890 ms root-document latency, an estimated 1,340 ms render-blocking saving, and 710 KiB cache-lifetime saving; HAR confirmed two very-high-priority parser stylesheets.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Improve HTML response latency, inline only critical CSS, defer remaining styles, and set effective immutable caching.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F16", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "guidanceId": "defer-rendering-heavy-content", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The page ships substantial unused JavaScript.", "evidence": "Lighthouse estimated 729 KiB unused JavaScript and 13 KiB unused CSS; HAR transferred 1.51 MB across 30 scripts.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-lighthouse-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Remove duplicate/legacy bundles, code-split by template, and load third-party functionality only after user need/consent.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F17", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "names-roles-labels", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Some links and images lack accessible names.", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed link-name and image-alt; the DOM probe counted 57 anchors with no text, aria-label, or image alt, and the image primitive found two missing alts.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-details.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/home-images.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Give every actionable link a discernible name and provide meaningful alt text or empty alt for decoration.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F18", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "sufficient-contrast", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Text contrast fails at scale.", "evidence": "Lighthouse identified 121 homepage contrast failures and 3 article failures.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-details.json", "evidence/article-lighthouse-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Update color tokens to meet WCAG AA in default and high-contrast modes, then retest all templates.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F19", "pathId": "politica-section", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "structure-and-focus", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Heading structure and focus visibility are inconsistent.", "evidence": "The Politica section has no h1 and begins with repeated h2 headings; many focused visible links show outline:none in the probe.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/section-probe.json", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use one descriptive h1 per section, maintain logical heading levels, and add a persistent :focus-visible treatment.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F20", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Homepage reflow and target sizing fail on mobile.", "evidence": "At 390 px the homepage overflows by 596 px and Lighthouse reports 10 undersized/closely spaced targets; viewport scaling itself is allowed.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/lighthouse-details.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Fix intrinsic reflow, preserve pinch zoom, and enlarge/separate targets.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F21", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "sound-document-and-assets", "guidanceId": "html", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Document basics are sound, but image delivery has sizing defects.", "evidence": "Doctype, UTF-8 and viewport are valid, but the image primitive found two missing dimensions on both homepage and article, 79/100 homepage images without srcset, and 94 legacy-format images.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/article-images.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add intrinsic dimensions/aspect-ratio and responsive modern image sources while retaining fallbacks.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F22", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "guidanceId": "html", "severity": "low", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "DevTools reports an inspector issue.", "evidence": "Lighthouse found one Inspector Issues entry, although it found no deprecated APIs or console errors.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-details.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Resolve the reported inspector issue and keep source maps/library audits clean in CI.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F23", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "guidanceId": "html", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Links are crawlable but some lack descriptive text and one section lacks an h1.", "evidence": "The homepage has 581 real href anchors but 57 have no discernible text; Lighthouse fails link-name. Viewport and robots allow normal search crawling.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse-details.json", "evidence/robots-sitemap.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Name every link and preserve meaningful visible text in anchors; add the missing section h1.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F24", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "guidanceId": "security", "severity": "critical", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Transport is HTTPS, but CSP and cookie protections are weak.", "evidence": "CSP allows unsafe-inline and unsafe-eval; HSTS and nosniff are missing. Six of seven observed cookies lack Secure and all use SameSite=None.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Deploy a nonce/hash CSP without unsafe-eval, add HSTS and nosniff, and mark cookies Secure with the narrowest SameSite policy.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F25", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "guidanceId": "privacy", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The pre-consent third-party footprint is extensive.", "evidence": "Tracker capture found 22 third-party origins and four known tracker domains; HAR transferred 2.16 MB, including 1.51 MB of scripts.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Block nonessential third parties until explicit consent, consolidate analytics, batch events, and set a strict third-party budget.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F26", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "defensive-browser-policies", "guidanceId": "security", "severity": "critical", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Key browser-enforced defensive policies are absent or unsafe.", "evidence": "Headers show no HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, clickjacking policy, or Permissions-Policy; Referrer-Policy is unsafe-url and CSP has no frame-ancestors while allowing unsafe code.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Set strict-origin-when-cross-origin, frame-ancestors, Permissions-Policy, HSTS, nosniff, and a hardened CSP/Trusted Types posture.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F27", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-resilient", "principleCheckId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "guidanceId": "persistent-top-layer-ui", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Runtime overlay behavior is inconsistent across templates and viewports.", "evidence": "Homepage/section show a centered blocking wall, mobile places actions below the first viewport, and the article uses a different bottom notice; no semantic dialog is present.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/article.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Unify consent state in one resilient semantic component with focus management, viewport-safe sizing, and nonblocking fallback.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F28", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-internationalised", "principleCheckId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "guidanceId": "css", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Language is declared, but layout CSS is not writing-mode resilient.", "evidence": "html lang is it, but CSS inspection found no logical properties and did find physical left/padding-left rules.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Adopt logical inline/block properties and set direction deliberately where bidirectional content can occur.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F29", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "no-dark-patterns", "guidanceId": "privacy", "severity": "critical", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Consent refusal is tied to purchasing a subscription.", "evidence": "The primary choices are “ACCETTA” and “RIFIUTA E ABBONATI”; the homepage CSS hides the continue-without-accepting control, making the privacy-preserving path materially less available.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Separate privacy refusal from purchase, expose “continue with essential cookies” at equal prominence, and keep defaults unselected.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F30", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "guidanceId": "privacy", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The commercial choice is entangled with consent refusal.", "evidence": "The consent wall presents subscription as the rejection action, while pricing appears elsewhere; this makes a privacy choice look like a purchase commitment.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/404.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Decouple consent from subscription, show pricing/commitment before purchase, and offer clear cancellation and reauthentication within the account flow.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F31", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "optimised-assets", "guidanceId": "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Image assets are not efficiently responsive.", "evidence": "The homepage image audit found 94 legacy-format images, 79 without srcset, and eight oversized images; Lighthouse estimated 76 KiB immediate image savings.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Generate AVIF/WebP variants and width-based srcset/sizes, preserve dimensions, and match source resolution to display size.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F32", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "no-wasteful-work", "guidanceId": "defer-rendering-heavy-content", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Large script and third-party loads create avoidable work.", "evidence": "HAR recorded 83 requests and 2.16 MB transferred; 30 scripts account for 1.51 MB, while Lighthouse estimates 729 KiB unused JavaScript.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-lighthouse-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Remove unused bundles, defer offscreen/optional components, and prevent background analytics/ad work before consent.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F33", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "guidanceId": "privacy", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Third-party code is disproportionate to the initial news task.", "evidence": "Twenty-two third-party origins load on the homepage, including four known trackers, before the user can access content.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Set a third-party request/byte budget, lazy-load user-value integrations, and keep trackers blocked until consent.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F34", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "principleCheckId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "guidanceId": "defer-work-until-scroll-ends", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "Repeated menu use retains substantial additional heap.", "evidence": "After equivalent consent dismissal and settling, 10 menu open/close cycles increased snapshot self size from 75.1 MB to 81.9 MB (+9%) and snapshot nodes from 1.35M to 1.52M (+13%).", "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-settled-baseline.json", "evidence/heap-settled-post.json", "evidence/menu-repeat-metrics.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Profile allocation retainers across repeated menu cycles, remove listeners/closures on close, and bound third-party caches.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F35", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "principleCheckId": "bounded-footprint", "guidanceId": "defer-rendering-heavy-content", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The homepage has an unusually large memory footprint for a news document.", "evidence": "The settled baseline heap summary contains 1,348,055 snapshot nodes and 75.1 MB self size before repeated interaction.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-settled-baseline.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Reduce DOM and script populations, virtualize/defer offscreen modules, and load advertising/analytics components conditionally.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F36", "pathId": "home", "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "principleCheckId": "no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners", "guidanceId": "defer-work-until-scroll-ends", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "medium", "summary": "Interaction-associated heap/node growth needs leak investigation.", "evidence": "The settled repeated-interaction snapshot retained 176,820 more snapshot nodes and 6.8 MB more self size; the in-page sample also grew from 3,441 to 3,478 DOM elements. Constructor-level detached-node attribution was unavailable, so confidence is medium.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-settled-baseline.json", "evidence/heap-settled-post.json", "evidence/menu-repeat-metrics.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use allocation instrumentation and listener/timer accounting around the menu lifecycle; release observers, timers, nodes and third-party references on close.", "effort": "large" } ], "taskList": [ { "id": "T1", "title": "Fix homepage mobile overflow and accessible targets", "priority": 1, "findingIds": [ "F08", "F09", "F10", "F20" ], "guidanceId": "fluid-scaling", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T2", "title": "Replace coercive blocking consent with a privacy-preserving semantic flow", "priority": 2, "findingIds": [ "F05", "F12", "F25", "F29", "F30", "F33" ], "guidanceId": "privacy", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T3", "title": "Cut LCP, render-blocking resources, unused JavaScript and third-party work", "priority": 3, "findingIds": [ "F13", "F14", "F15", "F16" ], "guidanceId": "performance", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T4", "title": "Harden CSP, cookies and browser security headers", "priority": 4, "findingIds": [ "F24", "F26" ], "guidanceId": "security", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T5", "title": "Repair contrast, names, heading structure and focus visibility", "priority": 5, "findingIds": [ "F10", "F17", "F18", "F19", "F20" ], "guidanceId": "accessibility", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T6", "title": "Optimize responsive image delivery", "priority": 6, "findingIds": [ "F31" ], "guidanceId": "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T7", "title": "Investigate and bound menu/session memory growth", "priority": 7, "findingIds": [ "F07", "F11", "F16", "F32", "F34", "F35", "F36" ], "guidanceId": "defer-rendering-heavy-content", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T8", "title": "Add dark/high-contrast preference support", "priority": 8, "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02" ], "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "status": "open" } ], "budget": { "pathCount": 5, "auditPasses": 1 }, "agent": "pi", "runId": "2026-07-21T05-42-10-953Z" }